DR G-One of my bosses gives herself a special Christmas present each year. Every Christmas season, she writes letters notifying five of her least favorite patients they have been fired and must find a new Doctor...Give yourself an early gift.Fire a few....though the blog wont suffer, I am sure ten will come along to replace each one you lose....Wendy

Psychology, neurology--there's a difference? C'mon they have neuropsych for a reason. Gynecology is doing the same thing--urogyn, gyn-onc. I may try and corner the market on a new subspecialty-gyn-psych. Why not?

@Lonely Midwife: if you look up "hysteria" in the Oxford English Dictionary you might believe that the Victorians already had gyn-psych as a subspeciality - "A functional disturbance of the nervous system, characterized by such disorders as anæsthesia, hyperæsthesia, convulsions, etc., and usually attended with emotional disturbances and enfeeblement or perversion of the moral and intellectual faculties. (Also called colloquially hysterics.) Women being much more liable than men to this disorder, it was originally thought to be due to a disturbance of the uterus and its functions: cf. HYSTERIC and the Ger. term mutterweh. Former names for the disease were vapours and hysteric(al) passion"

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